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Months in Year 1891: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 75 of 75

Jan 4th - Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Aust tour), dies
Jan 4th - Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
Jan 5th - Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89
Jan 5th - Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
Jan 7th - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79
Jan 8th - Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81
Jan 11th - Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81
Jan 16th - Clement Philibert Leo Delibes, composer (Lakmé), dies at 54
Jan 17th - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
Jan 20th - David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies
Jan 21st - Calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48
Jan 23rd - Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21
Jan 26th - Nicholaus Otto, German auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies. (b. 1833)
Jan 31st - Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75
Feb 9th - Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71
Feb 10th - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
Feb 13th - David Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77
Feb 14th - William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War General, dies at 71
Mar 15th - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
Mar 15th - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
Mar 17th - Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member Natl Convention, dies at 68
Mar 28th - Dick Pilling, cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", Eng 1881-88), dies
Post-Impressionist Painter Georges Seurat (Mar 29th) Mar 29th - Georges Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31
Apr 7th - Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88
Apr 15th - Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49
Apr 17th - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77
Apr 24th - Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies
Apr 25th - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
May 4th - Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
May 8th - Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
May 11th - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
May 16th - Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
May 23rd - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73
May 26th - Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67
Jun 6th - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
Jun 14th - Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77
Jun 23rd - Francis Henry Brown, composer, dies at 73
Jun 23rd - George Parr, cricketer (Nottinghamshire & All-England), dies
Jun 23rd - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
Jun 24th - Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer, dies at 80
Jun 28th - Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer, dies at 63
Jul 3rd - Stefano Golinelli, composer, dies at 72
Jul 4th - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67
Jul 4th - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
Jul 21st - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51
Jul 31st - Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian painter, dies at 77
Aug 4th - George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
Aug 5th - Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73
Aug 12th - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies
Aug 14th - Johnny Mullagh, cricketer (Aboriginal tourist 1868), dies
Aug 22nd - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
Aug 29th - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
Sep 2nd - Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer, dies at 76
Sep 7th - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
Sep 9th - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
Sep 18th - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
Sep 27th - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
Moby Dick Author Herman Melville (Sep 28th) Sep 28th - Herman Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies at 72
Sep 30th - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
Oct 3rd - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
Oct 6th - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
Oct 9th - Johannes Tideman, theologist, dies at 83
Oct 11th - Charles Stewart Parnells remains buried in Ireland
Oct 15th - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837)
Oct 16th - Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies
Oct 22nd - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
Nov 1st - John A Neuhuys, painter, dies at 59
Nov 10th - JN Arthur Rimbaud, poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies at 37
Dec 5th - JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies
Dec 11th - Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies
Dec 17th - Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian funded expedition
Dec 17th - Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle against Msiri, ruler of Garanganze Kingdom in the Congo
Dec 23rd - Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81
Dec 28th - Alfred Cellier, composer, dies at 47
Dec 29th - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68

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